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that in the Middle, as in them, e- 

 merging confiderably above the other 

 two, and caufing in fome meafure 

 the Appearance of a fort of Boats 

 I have feen, beaked at each End, 

 with a fhort-pointed Maft emerg- 

 ing out of the Middle. 



The Teeth, which inveft a Mem- plate nI 

 brane of the fame Nature forming Fig. 4. 

 the Tongue and Throat of the 

 Cuttle-fijh, differ from" thofe of the 

 Calamary in this, that the three 

 middle Rows are compofed of Parts 

 refembling hollow Cones, the pointed 

 Extremities of which lie fucceffively 

 each over the Root of that next 

 immediate to it. Every Range, of 

 which there are only feveh in this 

 Animal, contain forty four Teeth ; 

 the Amount of the Sum total is con- 

 fequently Three hundred and eight. 

 They are fomething more minute 

 than thofe of the Calamary, agree- 

 ably to the Expanfion of the Mem- 

 brane whereon they are ranged, the 

 Length of which is three Tenths of an 

 Inch, and the Breadth one Fifth of its 

 Length. The Drawing I have an- 

 nexed contains but an exceeding fmall 



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